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@ridingheroRegistered February 19, 2010Active 2 years, 5 months ago
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mawa wrote:
What kind off hardware whas out whit spanish instruction i know about the ac tap and probelly also the systeem itself but what whas there more?

I read that there were Spanish store display ads (Vague, I know). Do we have any South American collectors on this site?

VirtualJockey wrote:
Donor badges are gone? 🙁

The issue has been fixed, thanks KR155E! 🙂

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
All of the official release dates for Virtual Boy games only pertain to all of North America and Japan, so I would imagine that all 14 USA games would have also been released in Mexico. Thus, it could very well be that all 14 of these games also had Spanish instructions inserted into them after they originally left the manufacturers warehouses. I can’t imagine ever finding a copy of Jack Bros. with Spanish instructions, though. 😉

I’m also going to assume that all 14 games had a Mexican release. The above seller in question said he had sold many 3D-Tetris and Waterworld carts years ago before he or we really knew about the Spanish language inserts. While I imagine it’s very rare, I have little doubt that a Jack Bros from Mexico will pop up at one time or another. 🙂

Welcome, and enjoy your stay! The VB was and still is a very cool console.

Donor badges are gone? 🙁

wazzal wrote:
This one caught my eye; it is for 4 sealed games BUT these particular copies were for sale in Mexico, and include those Spanish print out instructions.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-4-Virtual-Boy-Games-NIB-only-few-lots-left-/250949451552?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6dc0bf20

Yeah, that guy is like the definitive source of Mexican VB releases. One of his cooler items he sells are his sealed AC Adapters (which weren’t sealed outside of the Mexico territory).

VBrulez wrote:

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:

VBrulez wrote:
Maybe you will find a bootleg cart to add to your collection one day, they might end up on ebay eventully. It’s suprising how they haven’t already, because of the current prices on many of the games. With the physical architecture, it could probably be reproduced very cheaply now, if game pirates know what they are doing.

If it seems to you like game pirates could make bootleg versions of Virtual Boy games because you think it could be very cheap and easy now to make carts, why do we still require to use donor carts to make a Flashboy or Bound High cart? 😛

Because there arn’t any bootleg VB carts.

Unless the Hong Kong Unit or the unknown Filipino poker game exists, there are no bootlegs. The VB simply didn’t live long enough for HK bootleggers to even have a chance at a “SUPER 60-in-1!” release. :p

If a vintage bootleg exists and surfaced, I’d probably bid up to 1k on it.
(technically speaking, something has to be at least 20 years old to be categorized as vintage, but you get my drift)

Sorry for flooding the thread, and end for the night. I’ll conclude with Yusuf Islam, or Cat Stevens as you know him.
I’ll never make the same mistake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpwI1ihiei4

If I ever lose my eyes and all my colors all run dry, I won’t have to cry anymore.

Rocket Man.

And I think it’s going to be a long…long…time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hARDXYz2io

When I was younger, I was shot point-blank in my right eye with a Rubber-band gun. I see brightness and colors in very completely different shades between my two eyes. IMO, I think the world looks much more pretty through my damaged eye. Thank goodness that the VB is Red and Black, because my defective eye makes no difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v–IqqusnNQ

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:
My favourite music is videogame music!

…Does that count?

Kinda’…

Castlevania II Simon’s Quest:
Bloody Tears

Or did you ever play Phoenix?
(just watch the first 22 seconds for the song)

VBrulez wrote:
It didn’t seem like it was real anyway.

Thanks for liking my new avatar. That big Nesters Funky Bowling display box is pretty awesome.

Yeah, it’s pretty awesome if you have a place for it! lol
It screws up my entire VB display, at least 1/3 bigger than a console box.

VBrulez wrote:
Since it souldn’t be illegal to own the cart, I will add EarthBound to my list then. It sucks and I’m sorry to hear how you paid authentic prices for pirated carts. There are to many greedy jerks that do stuff like that. Taking advantage of these reproduction sites and then listing a game on ebay as original knowing someone who doesn’t know will buy it.

A bootleg VB cart, seems like something that would exist. There is supposed to be something called the Hong Kong Module. It was supposed to be a all in one multicart, that had every game including protos on it. But it’s only rumored to exist, and if it did, there would atleast be a picture or video of it someware to prove it. Maybe you will find a bootleg cart to add to your collection one day, they might end up on ebay eventully. It’s suprising how they haven’t already, because of the current prices on many of the games. With the physical architecture, it could probably be reproduced very cheaply now, if game pirates know what they are doing.

The Hong Kong Unit doesn’t exist, at least it have never EVER shown up for sale in the past 14 years.

Nice new Avatar, BTW.

VBrulez wrote:
I was not directing my arguement towards you, or anyone. Eventhough it’s piracy, would it be illegal for someone to own what some would call a pirated cart?

I would think not. I’ve purchased multiple pirated carts that I originally thought were authentic (and I paid “authentic prices” too). I do not see how a consumer can be to blamed for such legal issues at hand.

Buying a pirated cart does not make you a pirate, pirating carts and manufacturing them for resale makes you a pirate.

The same goes for flashcarts. You may make and sell flashcarts, but you can’t sell flashcarts with copywritten content flashed to them. Overall, I’d like to think that there should be no fear from any angle on vintage items. I’ve searched the world around for a bootleg VB cart to add to my collection, but had no success. I figure the physical architecture was too expensive to manufacture in it’s day.

Black Keychain. The price is too high, but I guess we all can make reasonable offers. On the upside, this is good news for the user here named mawa since he opted for the red keychain when these first surfaced. 🙂

My tally so far on VB keychains according to eBay records is 3x black & 1x red including this auction at hand.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130607485397

Where have all the young men gone? Gone to graveyards everyone. When will hey ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone? Gone to flowers, EVERY one. When will they ever learn?

If I owned DH I would build a dumper, if just to preserve the title in case the original dies. Overall the monetary value of a cart hits the fan when a rom gets released. I wouldn’t send the cart to someone to be dumped, or else it would be another bound high fiasco (Eventually in the wrong hands and sold on ebay via flashboys).

I’d say a fundraiser is the only option to make up the value lost, unless you can buy the cart yourself and want to give away your investment for free.

Does anybody remember the story of the kid that released an Atari 2600 rom and lost out? He ended up getting murdered in a hotel room by some gal and a guy if I remember. Gruesome and horrible stuff.

VBrulez wrote:
Like L__E__T wrote, the you arn’t buying a ROM. Your paying for the craftsmenship used to build the cart.
These games are carts for systems that haven’t been sold in stores for almost twenty years. It’s not like it’s new games. If it was new stuff, it would be wrong and illegal on both ends, and the people making the games would be arrested.
I saw this Youtube video of a news segment, where people who made and sold pirated PS1 games when they were new, got tracked down and arrested, because the games were still in stores. Eventhough PS1 games arn’t in stores anymore, I think that copys/reproductions of anything PS1 and newer is illegal.
It seems that if these reproduction sites of old games haven’t been busted and shut down like those pirated PS1 sites on that Youtube video, it doesn’t seem like they ever will. Because if reproductions of old games was really piracy and so bad, wouldn’t they have been arrested, like those PS1 people?
It’s a old system you can’t buy anymore, not a new one you can walk into Walmart and get.

You seem to be directing your argument to me personally, unless I’m mistaken. I myself don’t care about vintage pirated games and am enthusiastic about the VB dev scene.
As a matter of fact, I find vintage bootlegs to be one of the coolest affordable classic gaming items to collect. While the Big N to my knowledge hasn’t cracked down on the Flashboy or the Bound High repros, Nintendo certainly has cracked down on Virtual Boy roms. Repro carts are just roms put onto a donor cart or flash cart. While reproductions of unloved and dismissed games is certainly meant for the benefit of gamers, I simply meant in the word of law it is still illegal. In the eyes of the law, there is no argument. In the eyes of sanity and reasoning, of course there is little reason these big conglomerates should care about these old and abandoned ignored games.
It’s harder to DL Galactic Pinball today than it was last year, and it’s easier to DL Bound High than it was…ever!
Whether to stroke their egos or to actually re-release a great game, Big companies exercise their rights to snuff out intellectual property rights more than we would dare have a nightmare about. I played Space invaders and Virtual lab before I bought it. These days, you just have to buy it to try it out.
While a fan making you an illegal Earthound Zero cart from a ROM at no monetary gain is pleasant, to gauge actual law on realistic personal desires vs NOA’s Vengeance on the collector’s community is a completely different monster.
Every month that passes that VB games don’t show up on the 3DS virtual console is just another month that makes me dislike Nintendo more for their unexcused 20-30 year old piracy crackdown on vintage titles that they have no intention of re-releasing.

  • This reply was modified 13 years, 7 months ago by VirtualJockey.

VBrulez wrote:
Yeah. It doesn’t make since why haven’t released the game on Virtual Console or anything. Like you said they just don’t want our money apparently.

I’ve been wanting to play the Earthbound games for years, and the first one would be a good place to start, especially on it’s own cartridge.

So Earthbound NES/Mother 1, is one of your top ten games ever made for the console. Just for curiousity what are the other nine?

My personal top 10 would be difficult. Lets just say the obvious classics such as Super Mario Bros 1 & 3, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, the entire Mega Man series, and other misc titles that are personally nostalgic to me. Mother 1 is one of those titles that would have been considered a classic to all had it been released.

L___E___T wrote:
and what’s more, the NES repro guy is charging for parts and labour.

Good point.

It’s about as illegal as jay-walking I’d say.

You know, I’ve actually got a jay-walking ticket before!? It blew my mind.

Nintendo make it a policy not to chase after and punish fan activity like this. It all enriches their name and community and is not deriving them of major income, so please don’t feel like their seething at the thought of this. They didn’t want to invest in it themselves because Earthbound is NOT massive in the West despite what teh internetz would suggest – but they’re certainly not going to shut anyone down over it.

I wouldn’t be so certain, in recent years the big N has been removing VB roms from websites. Lets hope that it’s due to the possible intention of adding them to the 3DS Virtual Console.

I played through Earthbound “Zero” on a GBA flashcart many years ago. Yes it’s absolutely not a legal form of ownership to own one and especially not legal to manufacture them. However, it’s a great game and Nintendo did no justice by canning the release and never offering an official alternative.
There is no legal way to own this game. Even if you shell out over 1k on eBay when an offifial proto pops up, it’s PROPERTY of Nintendo or the developers.

All in all, Mother 1/NES Earthbound is one of the top 10 games ever made for the console. Fans have screamed bloody murder for at least a decade to get this released, but it seems that Hal and Nintendo don’t want our money.